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        2. Drysdale's art captures Australian identity.
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          Russell Drysdale

          Australian artist

          Sir George Russell DrysdaleAC (7 February – 29 June ), also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist.

          He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in ,[1][2] and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in He was influenced by abstract and surrealist art, and "created a new vision of the Australian scene as revolutionary and influential as that of Tom Roberts".[3]

          Early life and career

          George Russell Drysdale was born in Bognor Regis, Sussex, England, to an Anglo-Australian pastoralist family, which settled in Melbourne, Australia in Drysdale was educated at Geelong Grammar School.

          He had poor eyesight all his life, and was virtually blind in his left eye from age 17 due to a detached retina (which later caused his application for military service to be rejected).[4]

          Drysdale worked on his uncle's estate in Queensland, and as a jackaroo in Victoria.[1] A chance encounter